By NATION REPORTERUNCERTAINTY has gripped over 500 workers at Indeni Petroleum Refinery and Tazama Pipelines Limited over the future of the two firms which have not been processing and selling fuel for the last one year.Workers in Ndola at the two giant parastatal firms complained that the country was no longer importing crude oil for processing at Indeni and eventual sale by Tazama because Government had now allowed Oil Marketing Companies (OMC) to import finished products.As a result, some non-essential workers had been sent on recess as there were no significant activities. The firms last received feedstock in 2020Tazama Pipeline Limited imports and pumps the crude oil along the pipeline which runs from Dar-es-Salaam to Ndola while the subsidiary, Tazama Petroleum Products Limited was established to market and sell the finished products after being processed at Indeni.However, workers expressed worry that the companies were now “white elephants” and that their jobs were no longer secure.National […]
INDENI, TAZAMA WORKERS IN LIMBO
